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Neurologic involvement of Lyme disease typically consists of meningitis, cranial neuropathy, and radiculoneuritis, alone or in combination, lasting for months. From 1976 to 1983, we studied 38 patients with Lyme meningitis. Headache and mild neck stiffness, which fluctuated in intensity, and lymphocytic pleocytosis were the common findings. Half of the patients also had facial palsies, which were unilateral in 12 and bilateral in seven. In addition, 12 patients had motor and/or sensory radiculoneuropathies; asymmetric weakness of extremities was the most common finding. Although incomplete presentations of neurologic involvement of Lyme disease may be confused with other entities, the typical constellation of neurologic symptoms represents a unique clinical picture.
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PMID:Neurological findings of Lyme disease. 651 50

In the past little attention was paid to the thoracoabdominal manifestation of Lyme radiculoneuritis, because paralysis of the abdominal wall muscles was considered to be a very uncommon clinical manifestation of Lyme neuroborreliosis. In a group of 90 patients suffering from early stage Lyme neuroborreliosis we found abdominal wall weakness in 11 cases. In the majority of patients thoracoabdominal radiculoneuritis was located in the lower thoracic segments (Th 7-12) and involved more than 3 segments (62%) mostly bilaterally (69%). Abdominal wall paralysis was mostly bilateral (91%) and involved always the lower half of the abdominal wall. It was very severe in 18%. Electromyographic studies were done in the paraspinal and abdominal wall muscles showing fibrillation potentials and positive sharp waves in 86% and 50%, respectively. Diagnosis of thoracoabdominal radiculoneuritis in Lyme neuroborreliosis may be difficult and diagnostic errors may occur. Therefore we recommend to look carefully for paralysis of the abdominal wall, which can easily be overlooked on routine neurological examination. In patients from an area with a high incidence of Lyme disease it is recommended to exclude neuroborreliosis even in patients with known diabetes mellitus in order to avoid the misdiagnosis of diabetic thoracoabdominal radiculopathy. This has occured in 2 of our patients.
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PMID:[Thoraco-abdominal manifestation of stage II Lyme neuroborreliosis]. 960 79

Brucellosis is a zoonosis that is transmissible to humans. It is a disease with multi-systemic involvement caused by the genus Brucella. Neurological complications, including meningitis, meningo-encephalitis, myelitis-radiculoneuritis, brain abscess, epidural abscess and meningo-vascular syndromes, are rarely encountered. We present a patient presenting with acute onset myositis. This kind of presentation has not previously been reported in the English language literature. We conclude that the diagnosis of neuro-brucellosis should be considered in patients presenting with muscle weakness.
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PMID:Acute onset myositis associated with brucellosis, quite a rare diagnosis. 1904 68